cc-writing-style
Use when polishing prose for a Cancer Cell (Cell Press) manuscript — the Summary/Introduction/Results/Discussion craft, claim calibration, and Cell Press nomenclature/house style. It edits language and framing; it does not design experiments or build figures.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cc-writing-style --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Writing Style & Claim Calibration (cc-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The Results read like a lab notebook rather than a mechanistic narrative - The Discussion overstates therapeutic / clinical impact - Claims outrun the evidence (single-system conclusions stated broadly) - Nomenclature, tense, or section structure are inconsistent with Cell Press ## Cell Press article structure (narrative roles) | Section | Role | |---------|------| | Summary | One-paragraph mechanistic arc (see `cc-structured-abstract`) | | Introduction | Concise; the gap and the hypothesis, not a textbook review | | Results | The mechanistic story, figure by figure, each claim tied to data | | Discussion | Interpretation, limitations, and **calibrated** translational implications | | STAR Methods | Structured methods + Key Resources Table (see `cc-reporting-standards`) | ## Results: write the mechanism as a story - Open each Results subsection with the **question/claim**, then the evidence, then the conclusion. - Each paragraph maps to a figure/panel; every assertion cites a panel. - Foreground **causality and orthogonal validation** ("loss of X reduced Y in cells and in PDX tumors") over a list of assays.
- When to trigger
- Cell Press article structure (narrative roles)
- Results: write the mechanism as a story
- Claim calibration (the signature Cancer Cell discipline)
- Nomenclature & house style
- Worked micro-edit: a Results paragraph in Cancer Cell voice
- Discussion craft (where Cancer Cell papers over- or under-claim)
- Referee reflexes to preempt
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the cc-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing prose for a Cancer Cell (Cell Press) manuscript — the Summary/Introduction/Results/Discussion craft, claim calibration, and Cell Press nomenclature/house style. It edits language and framing; it does not design experiments or build figures.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cc-writing-style --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.